Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1887-06-03
stand by the Farm.

Friday Neutrality-suspicious. 8, l8S7.
stand by the Farm.
A correspondent of New Jersey paper
offers some sound advice to farmers sons
who contemplate selling off their pa,ri-
monies in order to embark in some kind
of commercial business which they:ima-
gine will yield them better remuneration
with less iexertioa and labor. The writer
takes q similar view to that which the
TINES has often heretofore urged upon
many of our young men who have been
inclined to a similar course.
That the value of agricultural lands ap-
preciate steadily with the increase of pop
ulation Of the country is fact well known
and very easy to be understood. When
we look at the enormous influx of foreign
immigration which is annually pouring
into this country and steadily increasing
in its proportions, we can easily under
stand how the home market for agricul-
tural productions must be corresponding
ly improved and the demand for agricul-
tural lands greatly increased.
This is true of the country at large but
more especially of Southern Maryland,
where the new revolution in the methods
of agriculture brought about by the civil
war has left our county SO sparse of popu-
lation. There can be no doubt that as the
inquiry for agricultural lands increases,
this favored section of the "Sunny South,
with its many advantages of soil, climate
and marketing facilities, will bs sought
out and occupied by thrifty settlers. And
when this boom strikes our section it will
be far more appreciably felt here than else.
where from the fact that the vslue of agri-
cultural lands here have long been at the
lowest attainable point, or at "bed rock, "
as the phrase goes. The reaction, there
fore, when it comes-and it will most GER
tainly come-wil exert q more buoyant
influence upon Us than in other s,ctiona
where similar causes have not operated to
produce 80 great depression in agricul-
tural industry.
In this state OF affairs, then, and with
80 bright and certais q prospect before
them, the unwisdom of selling of their
lands and joining company with the lsrgs
army of adventures, which 10 in this
country annually increasing. must be ap-
parent to all of our sensible young men.
Let Us stand by the farm, keep the mort
cages down, hold the fort and wait for
the better times which are certainly COM
ing. We clip the following extract from
the letter referred to:
"Nothing is surer of yielding an income
than the lands of America; and also that
the size of the country cannot be greater,
while it almost absolutely certain that
within the next twenty five years our pop
uiation of about sixty millions will double,
or reach the enormous figures Of one hun-
dred and twenty millions Values offarms,
and all real estate in fact, advance in price
the world over Just about in proportion
as populstion becomes dense. Thus in
England today good farms sell for from
three to four hundred dollars per acre, and
there, as in Germany and France, it is es-
teemed the best property to hold or de-
scend to heirs, whether it nets two or
three per cent. or more or less. Periodi-
cally, we have depression IN farming
real estate owing to various causes-bad
crops, or over-abundant crops for several
years, each go to produce this result. But
after each. such depression an upward
bound carries the prices of farms higher
than ever known before. This fact occur
red no less than four times in the past fifty
years in all the good agricultural portions
of our country and We are now apparent
" on the eve of another materisl advance
in farming real estate, which has been sold,
in many cases, lower during the past two
years than in any ten years previously.
Many capitalists are beginning to look
around to see where they can invest 30 a.
to net three or four per cent. per annum
on such lands( which is more than Govern
ment bonds net,) and have at the same
time the advance in value due to the great
increase of population.
"The four million farm owners, and the
four million lot owners of America, are
today the best of of any body Of men OF
the same number on this planet Of ours,
and they hold the fort against the species
of anarchy in our land. Our advice to
one and all is this, keep the old home.
stead when you can, and to those who arc
toiling and saving also, get bit of "frse
soil" so that you can call your own n
early as you can"